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Contemporary Science Issues and Innovations: How Many languages Can You Learn?

by: Yvonne Stapp

Publication date: 2018-10-18

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: Science For The Public: Contemporary Science Issues, Belmont Media Center, Belmont, Massachusetts, 2018, Belmont Community Moving Image Archive

Item Size: 6.4G

How does the brain acquire and process language? How about multiple languages? And how about a whole lot of languages? Dr. Fedorenko describes what cognitive science knows and what is still to be learned. She and her associates focus on how the brains of multilingual people (polyglots) process
very different types of languages. They also investigate those rare individuals who learn dozens of languages (hyperpolyglots).